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...data from a range of different methodological approaches seems likely to be a good strategy in trying to answer questions about the nature of animal minds...Living psychology: animal minds: 7.3 Behind the scenes of the Dog Cognition Centre - You are nearly at the end of this course about animal minds. In this final section you will explore some research that at has looked...

...data developed by Atwater in the late 1800s. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also allows companies to use a modified set of values, published by the Department of Agriculture in 1955, that take into account our ability to digest different foods in different ways. Atwater’s numbers say that Tara Haelle can extract 8.9 calories per gram of fat in a plate of her...

...data, 70 per cent of people with drug-resistant bipolar depression responded to triple chronotherapy within the first week, and 55 per cent had a sustained improvement in their depression one month later. And whereas antidepressants – if they work – can take over a month to have an effect, and can increase the risk of suicide in the meantime, chronotherapy usually...

...data-processing resources, our ancestors evolved a brain that can focus on that approaching spear or lurking lion rather than a broad sweep of savannah landscape. One can think of it as a spotlight of attention that illuminates key sensory information in the brain, which then enters into conscious awareness. This is the mind’s spotlight on the outside world, with...

...analysis of ‘patient homicides’ in the UK (from 1997 onwards) was conducted, certain key features were identified. Specifically, substance misuse was usually a factor, around half of the ‘patients’ were not receiving the mental health care intended for them and the ‘patients’ were also at high risk of being a victim of homicide (Appleby et al., 2018)....